Transparent usage-billed LLM API gateway after subscription and markup fatigue

A heavy OpenCode/Claude Code user describes burning through a $200 MAX subscription in about an hour, then getting burned by relay stations with opaque billing (one charged $7 for a single Opus task; another drained a top-up in a few embedding calls with bills that didn't add up). They settled on a gateway with per-token pricing and an auditable usage ledger — evidence that billing transparency, not price alone, is the switching factor for AI API intermediaries.

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